Details of the NCC Administration’s course of destruction this summer and fall were presented at the SUNY Board of Trustees’ Nov 13 public hearing by faculty, student, graduate, and retiree speakers. Speakers shared the difficulties of creating course schedules with reduced class offerings; the results of the administration’s early class cancellation policy; the impact of not replacing full-time faculty retirees and of firing recent, untenured faculty on staffing labs, help centers, and classes; the issues created for students when programs do not have coordinators; and the programs that risk de-accreditation or destruction due to recent abolishment of 15 academic departments.
Speakers asked the SUNY Trustees to take action to return stability and normalcy to NCC. In March, NCC faculty passed a Vote of No Confidence in its College Trustees and Administration. In April, a Mock Middle States Commission on Higher Education Review raised concerns and recommended a Faculty Council of Community College (FCCC) Wellness Visit. In August, the FCCC Wellness Visit documented serious problems leading many to brand NCC’s environment as “toxic”. Speakers asked the SUNY BOT: What more does SUNY need to act?
A video of speakers who presented the state of affairs at NCC to the SUNY Board of Trustees public hearing on Nov 13 is below.
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I agree with Brye A. Mack. NCC management is broken. Where is SUNY?
NCC was MY beginning in furthering my education at SUC Brockport.
I achieved an A.A. and B. A in Liberal Arts, specializing in Technical Theatre Lighting Design.
My education and experience qualified me to work for Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development developing Digital Cinema to replace film technology and recently I completed my career at IMAX.
I mention all of this because I did not have the grades coming out of high school. My AA from NCC allowed me to later prove my worth at Brockport.
How many other NCC Theatre grads can tell similar stories?
The NCC campus is a county diamond.
I smell developers’ influence.
Monies must be found, and a qualified board and president must also be found.
At a guess, this is as far as the NCCFT can take it. Is there anywhere else to go, or anything else that can be done?
As a retired faculty professor Emeritus of the Marketing, Interior Design are, I am appalled with what is going on at Nassau community college.
I retired in 2015 amid much chaos with the department chair of the marketing department. The diminished staff and level of poor leadership was very well covered up by teaching chairs and administrators. When Dr. Sean Fanelli retired and Dr. John Ostling was forced to leave the coup began.
I am extremely disappointed with SUNY for allowing this wonderful educational institution to continue on the path to destruction. I would hope that SUNY would place more value on the needs of the students rather than the needs of administrators.
Thank you Rosanne Scarpelli